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The Girl on the Wall

One Life's Rich Tapestry

By: Jean Baggott

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The Girl on the Wall

One Life's Rich Tapestry

By: Jean Baggott

Jean Baggott is 'the girl on the wall' - a 1948 photograph taken of her when she was eleven - whose life was never going to be remarkable and the pinnacle of whose achievements would come from being a wife and a mother. Almost 60 years later, with her children gone, dealing with the loss of the love of her life, Jean began the education denied to her as a girl. Inspired by ceilings of Lincolnshire's Burghley House and by the History degree she had begun, Jean began to stitch a tapestry which looked back at her life and the changing world around her. It took sixteen months to complete. The tapestry consists of over 70 intersecting circles, each telling some aspect of her life. Some represent extraordinary events such as the moon landings or world historical news stories like the Cuban Missile Crisis; some circles comment on famous people and places she remembers, others about the music she loves - Pink Floyd - and the games she played as a child, and growing up during the second world war with her brothers. Each chapter of "The Girl on the Wall" features a circle from the tapestry and Jean's accompanying narrative, exploring the circle and the memories it evokes. It reveals an ordinary life in extraordinary detail. The result is a truly unique, touching portrait of a seemingly average British woman's life. To stand back and look at the tapestry is to be struck by the richness of one human journey - from 1940 to the present day. The girl on the wall would be proud. The book includes a full-colour pull-out of Jean's tapestry inside the back cover.

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Icon Books Ltd

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1848312881

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9781848312883

The Politics of Expertise

How NGOs Shaped Modern Britain

By: Matthew Hilton,James McKay,Nicholas Crowson,Jean-François Mouhot

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The Politics of Expertise

How NGOs Shaped Modern Britain

By: Matthew Hilton,James McKay,Nicholas Crowson,Jean-François Mouhot

The Politics of Expertise offers a challenging new interpretation of politics in contemporary Britain, through an examination of non-governmental organisations. Using specific case studies of the homelessness, environment, and international aid and development sectors, it demonstrates how politics and political activism has changed over the last half century. NGOs have contributed enormously to a professionalization and a privatization of politics, emerging as a new form of expert knowledge and political participation. They have been led by a new breed of non-party politician, working in collaboration and in competition with government. Skilful navigators of the modern technocratic state, they have brought expertise to expertise and, in so doing, have changed the nature of grassroots activism. As affluent citizens have felt marginalised by the increasingly complex nature of many policy solutions, they have made the rational calculation to support NGOs, the professionalism and resources of which make them better able to tackle complex problems. Yet in doing so, support rather than participation becomes the more appropriate way to describe the relationship of the public to NGOs. As voter turnout has declined, membership and trust in NGOs has increased. But NGOs are very different types of organisations from the classic democratic institutions of political parties and the labour movement. They maintain different and varied relationships with the publics they seek to represent. Attracting mass support has provided them with the resources and the legitimacy to speak to power on a bewildering range of issues, yet perhaps the ultimate victors in this new form of politics are the NGOs themselves.

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OUP Oxford

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0191636916

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9780191636912

The Girl on the Wall

One Life's Rich Tapestry

By: Jean Baggott

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One Life's Rich Tapestry

By: Jean Baggott

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Comparative Aspects of Extracellular Acid-Base Balance

By: Jean-Paul Truchot

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Comparative Aspects of Extracellular Acid-Base Balance

By: Jean-Paul Truchot

Interest in comparative acid-base physiology has considerably grown during last decades even in the absence of major technical or conceptual advances. This is firstly because it has become clear that the extracellular acid-base state reflects the performance of many exchange functions at the organism level: respiration and ventilation of the gas exchange surfaces, metab olism, iono-and osmoregulation. Such functions are much in fluenced by ambient conditions, and the measurement of acid base parameters thus provides useful information about the organism's responses to environmental challenges. Secondly, many processes at the molecular level are now known to be pH sensitive, and acid-base regulation thus appears to be a major requirement for the functional integrity of cells and organisms. How extracellular acid-base balance can be maintained in a wide variety of animals living in different conditions is the sub ject of this book. The approach is comparative and environ mental throughout. All body fluids share similar buffer proper ties, and common physicochemical principles apply to any acid base system. However, in accord with differing designs and con straints along animal evolution, varying effector organs and mechanisms are at work to maintain an appropriate acid-base state in the organism. Particular emphasis is placed on the fun damental differences between water and air breathers and on the acid-base and respiratory problems arising at the transition from an aquatic to a terrestrial life. Also the complex array of factors influencing the acid-base state in water-dwelling animals is thoroughly discussed.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3642831303

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9783642831300

Medical Doctors in Health Reforms

A Comparative Study of England and Canada

By: Jean-Louis Denis,Sabrina Germain,Catherine Régis,Gianluca Veronesi

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Medical Doctors in Health Reforms

A Comparative Study of England and Canada

By: Jean-Louis Denis,Sabrina Germain,Catherine Régis,Gianluca Veronesi

This timely comparative study assesses the role of medical doctors in reforming publicly funded health services in England and Canada. Respected authors from health and legal backgrounds on both sides of the Atlantic consider how the high status of the profession uniquely influences reforms. With summaries of developments in models of care, and the participation of doctors since the inception of publicly funded healthcare systems, they ask whether professionals might be considered allies or enemies of policy-makers. With insights for future health policy and research, the book is an important contribution to debates about the complex relationship between doctors and the systems in which they practice.

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Policy Press

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1447352165

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9781447352167

Complete Intermittent Fasting

Practical Guidelines and Healthy Recipes to Lose Weight and Improve Wellness

By: Jean LaMantia RD

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Complete Intermittent Fasting

Practical Guidelines and Healthy Recipes to Lose Weight and Improve Wellness

By: Jean LaMantia RD

Harness the health benefits of intermittent fasting—a comprehensive guide with meal plans and more Intermittent fasting (IF) is an evidence-based eating program that's existed in multiple forms for nearly 2,500 years, with roots in evolution and religion. That said, there are many ways to approach it and apply it to your life. Complete Intermittent Fasting is filled with essential information, how-to advice, FAQs, meal plans, and recipes to help you adopt and maintain an intermittent fasting lifestyle for weight loss and improved health. Discover guidance on how to incorporate intermittent fasting into your life. Learn how to choose the right feeding and fasting window for you, overcome challenges, and maintain an intermittent fasting lifestyle over the long term. Whether you choose 16:8, 5:2, 20:4, 24-hour, or alternate-day fasting, you'll find convenient meal plans and healthy recipes to get you started on the right foot. Complete Intermittent Fasting includes: The science of IF—Learn more about what intermittent fasting is, its benefits, and the different feeding and fasting windows. 50 Delicious recipes—Explore healthy and flavorful recipes to eat (when you do eat), including broths and drinks, low-carb and keto dishes, low-calorie and low-fat fare, and clean-eating meals. Guidance for variations—Get practical advice for how to successfully implement intermittent fasting if you're a woman, eat a keto diet, or have high-fat intolerance. Here's everything you need to apply intermittent fasting to your life so you can look and feel your best. Let's get started!

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Sourcebooks, Inc.

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1646119541

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9781646119547

The Fish Factory

Work and Meaning for Black and White Fishermen of the American Menhaden Industry

By: Barbara J. Garrity-Blake,Barbara Jean Garrity

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The Fish Factory

Work and Meaning for Black and White Fishermen of the American Menhaden Industry

By: Barbara J. Garrity-Blake,Barbara Jean Garrity

Focusing on the menhaden fishermen of the southern coastal regions, The Fish Factory is an engaging and insightful exploration of what work means to different social groups employed within the same industry. Since the nineteenth century, the menhaden industry in the South has been traditionally split between black crews and white captains. Using life histories, historical research, and anthropological fieldwork in Reedville, Virginia, and Beaufort, North Carolina, Barbara Garrity-Blake examines the relationship between these two groups and how the members of each have defined themselves in terms of their work. The author finds that for the captains and other white officers of the menhaden vessels--men "born and bred" for a life on the water--work is a key source of identity. Black crewmen, however, have insisted on a separation between work and self; they view their work primarily as a means of support rather than an end in itself. In probing the implications of this contrast, Garrity-Blake describes captain/crew relations within both an occupational context and the context of race relations in the South. She shows how those at the bottom of the shipboard hierarchy have exercised a measure of influence in a relationship at once asymmetrical and mutually dependent. She also explores how each group has reacted to the advent of technology in their industry and, most recently, to the challenges posed by those proclaiming a conservationist ethic.

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Univ. of Tennessee Press

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1572333383

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9781572333383

Application-driven Quantum And Statistical Physics: A Short Course For Future Scientists And Engineers - Volume 3: Transitions

By: Jean-michel Gillet

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Application-driven Quantum And Statistical Physics: A Short Course For Future Scientists And Engineers - Volume 3: Transitions

By: Jean-michel Gillet

Bridging the gap between traditional books on quantum and statistical physics, this series is an ideal introductory course for students who are looking for an alternative approach to the traditional academic treatment.This pedagogical approach relies heavily on scientific or technological applications from a wide range of fields. For every new concept introduced, an application is given to connect the theoretical results to a real-life situation. Each volume features in-text exercises and detailed solutions, with easy-to-understand applications.This third volume covers several basic and more advanced subjects about transitions in quantum and statistical physics. Part I describes how the quantum statistics of fermions and bosons differ and under what condition they can merge into the classical-particle-statistics framework seen in Volume 2. This section also describes the fundamentals of conductors, semiconductors, superconductors, superfluids and Bose-Einstein condensates. Part II introduces time-dependent transitions between quantum states. The time evolution of a simple two-level model gives the minimum background necessary to understand the principles behind lasers and their numerous applications. Time-dependent perturbation theory is also covered, as well as standard approaches to the scattering of massive particles. A semi-classical treatment of electromagnetic field-matter interaction is described with illustrations taken from a variety of processes such as phonon scattering, charge distribution or spin densities. The third and last part of the book gives a brief overview of quantum electrodynamics with applications to photon absorption or emission spectroscopies and a range of scattering regimes. There follows a short introduction to the role of multiphoton processes in quantum entanglement based experiments.

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World Scientific

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1786347903

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9781786347909

Selected Writings Of Jean Genet

By: Jean Genet

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Selected Writings Of Jean Genet

By: Jean Genet

Excerpts from the novels, plays, and poems of the French convict, prostitute, and literary artist join notes from his film, The Penal Colony, letters, essays, and a rare interview, all edited by a contemporary biographer.

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Harper Collins

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0880014202

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9780880014205

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The Girl on the Wall

The Girl on the Wall

The Politics of Expertise

The Politics of Expertise

The Girl on the Wall

The Girl on the Wall

Comparative Aspects of Extracellular Acid-Base Balance

Comparative Aspects of Extracellular Acid-Base Balance

Medical Doctors in Health Reforms

Medical Doctors in Health Reforms

Complete Intermittent Fasting

Complete Intermittent Fasting

The Fish Factory

The Fish Factory

Application-driven Quantum And Statistical Physics: A Short Course For Future Scientists And Engineers - Volume 3: Transitions

Application-driven Quantum And Statistical Physics: A Short Course For Future Scientists And Engineers - Volume 3: Transitions

Selected Writings Of Jean Genet

Selected Writings Of Jean Genet

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